Sgt. Daniel Dubois pulled his unmarked SUV in behind a black Kia hatchback as it began to pick up speed down a two-lane country highway through Quebec’s borderlands with New York State.
Dubois, who leads the RCMP’s Champlain border patrol unit, has a honed eye for the small details that separate local traffic from suspected vehicles on human smuggling border runs through this region of forests, fields and farms about 70 kilometres south of Montreal.
His first sign there’s something off with the Kia was the speed: rising over 100 km/h in an 80 km/h zone on a June evening when most local traffic was heading into driveways, coming back home.
